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单词 feel the pinch
释义

feel the pinch

Experience hardship, especially financial: staff were beginning to feel the pinch as the dispute entered its third week...
  • The position of the Coptic communities is becoming more insecure and they are the first to feel the pinch of hardship.
  • Though obviously a different prospect to a large hotel and dependent of passing trade rather than the tour buses or large bookings, many guest houses around Kerry are also beginning to feel the pinch.
  • Both men are septuagenarians who have felt the pinch of ageism in a business that often dismisses extensive experience and talent as irrelevant.

Synonyms

suffer hardship, have less money, be short of money, be poor, be impoverished, suffer poverty, suffer adversity
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